Follow the User?!
Data Donation Studies for Collecting Digital Trace Data
Session 1️⃣ : Welcome & Intro to Digital Traces
Frieder Rodewald (University of Mannheim) & Valerie Hase (LMU Munich)
👉 Part of the SPP DFG Project Integrating Data Donations in Survey Infrastructure
Who are you?
Please raise your hand 🤚 if you ….
- are familiar with the term digital trace data
- have worked with APIs
- have worked with data donation
- have worked with automated content analysis
- regularly use programming languages (e.g., R, Python)
Who are we: Frieder Rodewald
![Frieder Rodwald]()
PhD, University of Mannheim (DFG project on data donation)
Research interests:
CSS (automated content analysis, digital traces, bias)
Privacy concerns & behavior
More info: github.com/frodew & frieder-rodewald.de
Who are we: Valerie Hase
![Valerie Hase]()
Akademische Rätin a. Z./Postdoc, LMU Munich (prev.: University of Zurich & LSE)
Research interests:
- CSS (automated content analysis, digital traces, bias, data access)
- Digital journalism, crisis communication
More info: github.com/valeriehase & valerie-hase.com
A big thank you 🙌 to the organizers
Shoutout to the organizers behind the 7th Comptext, especially
- Fabienne Lind
- Veronika Ebner
- Marcin Stecker
What is the goal of this workshop?
- ✅ Understanding digital data traces as a type of data
- ✅ Understanding data donation as a method of data access
- ✅ Working through key steps of data donation methods (user & researcher view)
- ✅ Discussing when (not) to use data donation studies
- ❌ Detailed implementation (e.g., server set-up)
